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As the People’s Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting as well as most recent scholarship ignore the part played by forces emanating from the global capitalist system in the PRC’s failures as well as its successes. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; China scholar Arif Dirlik reflects in Complicities on a wide range of concerns, from the Tiananmen Square tragedy to the spread of Confucius Institutes across more than four hundred campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred in the United States. Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Dirlik’s discussion stresses foreign complicity in encouraging the PRC’s imperial ambitions and disdain for human rights. Eager for economic gain, the United States, Europe, and other Western countries have been complicit in supporting the PRC’s authoritarian capitalism. Such support has been a key factor in nourishing the PRC’s hegemonic aspirations. Infatuation with the PRC’s incorporation in global capitalism has been important to Communist Party leaders’ ability to suppress all memory and mention of Tiananmen, and their continuing abuse of human rights. More recently, the PRC’s focus has migrated to “soft power” as a means of expanding global influence, with organizations like the Confucius Institutes exploiting foreign educational institutions to promote the political aims of the state. &#160;<div>As the People&rsquo;s Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting as well as most recent scholarship ignore the part played by forces emanating from the global capitalist system in the PRC&rsquo;s failures as well as its successes.<br /> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<br /> China scholar Arif Dirlik reflects in <i>Complicities </i>on a wide range of concerns, from the Tiananmen Square tragedy to the spread of Confucius Institutes across more than four hundred campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred in the United States. Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Dirlik&rsquo;s discussion stresses foreign complicity in encouraging the PRC&rsquo;s imperial ambitions and disdain for human rights. Eager for economic gain, the United States, Europe, and other Western countries have been complicit in supporting the PRC&rsquo;s authoritarian capitalism. Such support has been a key factor in nourishing the PRC&rsquo;s hegemonic aspirations. Infatuation with the PRC&rsquo;s incorporation in global capitalism has been important to Communist Party leaders&rsquo; ability to suppress all memory and mention of Tiananmen, and their continuing abuse of human rights. More recently, the PRC&rsquo;s focus has migrated to &ldquo;soft power&rdquo; as a means of expanding global influence, with organizations like the Confucius Institutes exploiting foreign educational institutions to promote the political aims of the state.<br /> &#160;</div>Political Science : American Government and Politics : Classic Political Thought : Comparative Politics : Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, and International Relations : Judicial Politics : Political Behavior and Public Opinion : Political and Social Theory : Public Policy : Race and Politics : Urban PoliticsThu, 15 Jun 2017 05:00:00 GMTArif Dirlik9780996635530Making Troublehttp://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo26613964.html
Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an &#8220;instrument of knowledge,&#8221; an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis of civilization brought about by World War I, it presented a sustained challenge to scientific rationalism as a privileged mode of knowing. In certain ways, surrealism&#8217;s critique of white, Western civilization anticipated many later attempts at producing alternate non-Eurocentric epistemologies.&#160;With Making Trouble, sociologist and cultural historian Derek Sayer explores what it might mean to take surrealism&#8217;s critique of civilization seriously. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, Sayer first establishes surrealism as an important intellectual antecedent to the study of the human sciences today. He then makes a compelling and well-written argument for rethinking surrealism as a contemporary methodological resource for all those who still look to the human sciences not only as a way to interpret the world, but also to change it.&#160;&#160;<div>Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an &#8220;instrument of knowledge,&#8221; an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis of civilization brought about by World War I, it presented a sustained challenge to scientific rationalism as a privileged mode of knowing. In certain ways, surrealism&#8217;s critique of white, Western civilization anticipated many later attempts at producing alternate non-Eurocentric epistemologies.&#160;<br><br>With <i>Making Trouble,</i> sociologist and cultural historian Derek Sayer explores what it might mean to take surrealism&#8217;s critique of civilization seriously. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, Sayer first establishes surrealism as an important intellectual antecedent to the study of the human sciences today. He then makes a compelling and well-written argument for rethinking surrealism as a contemporary methodological resource for all those who still look to the human sciences not only as a way to interpret the world, but also to change it.&#160;<br>&#160;</div>Culture StudiesSociology : Collective Behavior, Mass Communication : Criminology, Delinquency, Social Control : Demography and Human Ecology : Formal and Complex Organizations : General Sociology : History of Sociology : Individual, State and Society : Medical : Methodology, Statistics, and Mathematical Sociology : Occupations, Professions, Work : Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations : Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology : Social Gerontology : Social History : Social Institutions : Social Organization--Stratification, Mobility : Social Psychology--Small Groups : Sociology of Arts--Leisure, Sports : Sociology--Marriage and Family : Theory and Sociology of Knowledge : Urban and Rural SociologyMon, 15 May 2017 05:00:00 GMTDerek Sayer9780996635523